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Welcome to Ms. Ramos's class
January 24, 2007 (Thursday)



What are we doing during this lesson? We are:
1. Discussing reading comprehension strategies
2. Supporting our answer choices with pertinent textual evidence
3. Explaining the reasons for the incorrectness of some answer choices
4. Writing text-specific interpretive responses
5. Supporting our text-specific interpretive response with pertinent textual evidence
6. Evaluating our participation using a criteria/rubric



Class Participation Rubric

Exemplary (90 -100 points) Exemplary (90 -100 points) Acceptable (80 -89) Call 911 (50-79)

1. Students answered the question correctly.


2. Students supported response with three pertinent textual evidence



3. Students explained the multi-step thinking process that they followed in choosing the correct answer choice.



4. Students explained the reasons for the incorrectness of the other three answer choices




Criteria for an effective text-specific interpretive response
1. Has to clearly, effectively, precisely and simply answer the question
2. Support their position/opinion/argument/claim with relevant textual evidence
Reminder:
1. The textual evidence needs to flow naturally into students own words
2. Textual evidence can be in the form of an embedded quote, paraphrase, or direct quotation.
3. The position/opinion/argument/claim has to be insightful, (has real world/universal application) (Isn't it amazing?/wonderful?/powerful?/profound?/interesting?/cool?/tight?/
4. It shows effective use of conventions such correct spelling, capitalization, usage and punctuation.

Text-specific interpretive question number 1:Who do you think is more fortunate, Leona Helmley's dog or the dog of the author in "A Boy and his Dog"? Support your response with evidence from the text.


Read the following link:
ONE LUCKY DOG




Text-specific interpretive question number 2:How are dogs protrayed in the video clip and the story, "A Boy and his Dog"?



Text-specific interpretive question number 3: How did the dog help the author change in "The Dog Diaries"?



Text-specific interpretive question number 4: Based on the story, "A Boy and his Dog", what kind of an owner is the boy towards his dog?



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